BELLE FOURCHE—The Belle Fourche Chamber of Commerce helped welcome new owners of an established business to the Belle community at the ribbon cutting for Quality Quick Print, formerly Print Mark-et, on September 10.
This new purchase brings back a long-time Belle resident to the area. Trevor Madsen is the new Director of Sales and Marketing and will be going back and forth between the Belle Fourche office and the Rapid City location. “I went to school in Spearfish and then I worked in Belle Fourche for about 10 years. I moved back to Rapid City in 2018 so I’ve kind of been all around the Hills,” he explained. When he was in Belle he worked for Tri-State Livestock and he looks forward to rekindling all of those old business relationships.
Quality Quick Print is headquartered in Aberdeen and was actively looking to expand to this area when Print Mark-et came up for sale. “The opportunity came up where Mark Schreiner, who was the previous owner, had kind of got to the end and said, ‘hey, I’m ready to retire,’ and his kids weren’t real interested in taking over the business and we were looking to buy. So it was just a perfect union, I guess, to bring us all together,” explained Steve Lewno, QQP President. “So what Mark had built over the years with the acquisition of Sand Creek and Unique Signs—it complemented the business that we were already doing in Aberdeen, extremely well—it just gave us the opportunity to really solidify the community support that we could offer out here and a better service offering.”
Quality Quick Print brings years of experience and history to the new Belle Fourche store. “Our tagline is “Your Brand. On Anything. Anywhere.” We started off as a print company back in 1979 and from the success of that print company, we’ve continued to grow from a quick print shop to a commercial sheet fed shop to a web printing shop,” said Lewno. “And then from that continued success, we added signage—we do exterior and interior signage—and from there, we added apparel, which is embroidery, screen print, direct to garment, direct to film printing. We also do promotional items, so golf balls and mugs and things that you might want to hand out in a parade or things like that.”
The new ownership has no plans to implement any changes to the current employees that were previously with Print Mark-et. “There’s no change over in the staff. So all the staff that was previously with Mark, is gonna stay on board with us. Mona, who runs the Belle location is going to continue, as long as she wants to be here—she’s going to be here running the show,” said Lewno.
The old Print Mark-et joins a growing company. “We’ve got two locations in Aberdeen and then we’ve got a sales office in Pierre and then this recent acquisition brought us Rapid City and Belle Fourche, plus we’ve got a sister company in Sioux Falls named Panther Graphics,” explained Lewno.
In total the company has about 225 employees and does business in 49 out of 50 states. “I’m still looking for a customer in Hawaii so that I have an excuse to go to Hawaii on a sales trip,” Lewno joked.
QQP is proud of their strong South Dakota roots! “We’re a South Dakota ownership group, second generation owners from Leola, South Dakota,” said Lewno. “Once the dad was ready to retire, the two sons took over about five years ago, and everything’s kind of just been moving right along. We’re South Dakota all the way.”
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